Campus News

The Bethel College Chamber Orchestra and Wind Ensemble will present a free concert to the community on Thursday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Everest-Rohrer Chapel/Fine Arts Center-Auditorium. The orchestra will be conducted by Associate Professor of Music Vicky Tan Warkentien, D.M.M., and the wind ensemble will be conducted by Professor of Music Mike Kendall, Ph.D. The chamber orchestra’s repertoire for this fall’s program includes: “The Carnival of the Animals,” a musical suite of 14 movements by Camille Saint-Saëns, and “Finlandia,” a symphonic poem by Jean Sibelius. The wind ensemble will perform Robert W. Smiths’ Divine Comedy – a multimedia symphony, with featured soloist Stefan Roose, performing James Curnow’s “Concertino for Tuba and Wind Ensemble.”

Bethel’s fourth president (1982-1988), the Rev. James “Jim” A. Bennett, Ph.D., of Elkhart, Ind., passed away yesterday afternoon, Oct. 8, after years of declining health. He was 78 years old.
Visitation will be held Monday, Oct. 12 in the Weaver Rotunda of the Everest-Rohrer Chapel/Fine Arts Center from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13 in the Everest-Rohrer Chapel/Fine Arts Center – Auditorium on Bethel’s campus.

Michiana Down Syndrome (MDS) will be hosting its annual walk and festival at Bethel College on Oct. 10, 2015. The doors will open for registration in the Wiekamp Athletic Center at 9:30 a.m., where participants can enjoy a silent auction, games, raffles, vendor tables, door prizes, and professional face painting, before the walk begins at 12:30 p.m.

The work of Katharine Schmidt, assistant professor and chair of the visual art department; Suzanne Mauro, assistant professor of ceramics; and Jeffrey Combs, adjunct professor of 2D design and digital photography, was selected from among more than 400 submissions to be featured along with 207 pieces in Midwest Museum of Art's 37th Elkhart Juried Regional Art Exhibition. Their artwork will be showcased from Oct. 9 to Dec. 6.

Bethel College has been selected out of nearly 8,000 postsecondary schools as the recipient of a Best Value School award. The award is issued by University Research and Review (URR), a company dedicated to improving the process of how a student selects a postsecondary school.